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We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
Sep 10, 2025
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band! Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.